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This is an interesting observation. However, it speaks more to the overall education level of the Chinese citizenry

That episode with the reformed murderer was especially hard...what a brilliant show

The hands and feet on some of them are downright disturbing. I would not want my child coloring in AI generated slop, there's something fundamentally disconcerting about that.

Wouldn't stoicism be at odds with political action? Why protest if it's all out of our hands?

How?

Can you explain the intention behind your post?

It matters for me to understand you, the other. I'm trying :p

Yes, I'm more in the continental mindset myself. To paraphrase Gene Wolfe, the meaning of life is life itself, not as a means to an end, but an end unto itself. Which is why I was …

Why? Is it because it's esoteric, not meant for all?

where did I say circumstances excuse bad behaviour? Morality exists I agree, and personally yes, I don't think there's a transfiguration of what morality is based entirely on circu…

The law does have mitigations though, like if someone has suffered severe trauma or was in an otherwise uncontrollable position that led them to make so and so actions. Same reason…

I should have added a necessary 'necessarily' to my assertion lol. Power corrupting gives you a template or heuristic to base some assumptions from. There are obviously exceptions,…

Maybe we're getting lost in the weeds. I'm not arguing for determinism, though Robert Sapolsky certainly is if you're keen on learning more. Also my perspective doesn't justify or …

I feel that it's a fairly notable distinction. See the Manson trials. An individual exerting will to 'corrupt' someone helpless is markedly different than someone, through mostly t…

So do you think then that power doesn't corrupt?

What's your basis for cutting? What's the underlying principle here?

I don't think you understood what I was trying to express

I have a bridge to sell you then

If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self destructive.

Why be so precious? If it's good it's good

We aren't mind readers, tell us the context, is it a regional spelling?

Yes, it's hard, I agree. I suppose this is why we venerate Socrates. For our part though, we need to be alive, to understand this unity of being and, to paraphrase Forster, live in…

Is art imitating reality or the other way round?

Maybe you can start by asking the right questions

The transhumanist/effective altruism types really do a great service in making me chuckle. I wonder where that attitude comes from, lack of community?